Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory for moderation," beamed Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith last week. Standing on the sunny lawn of a red brick civil service building in Salisbury, Smith announced that he and three black nationalist leaders had reached agreement on a formula for black majority rule in Rhodesia. The proposal, which came after 2½ months of almost daily negotiations, would bring to an end 90 years of white rule in the breakaway British colony, something Smith himself only a few years ago vowed would never happen "in a thousand years...
Morarji Desai, India's Prime Minister, urging journalists to be generalists: "An expert seldom gives an objective view. He gives his own view...
...elections in March will reflect to what extent French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, prime minister Raymond Barre and their centrist political cohorts can convince the citizens of France that they are not simply the chief executives of an omnipotent industrial bourgeoisie. They must prove that although liberal parliamentary government and favorable business conditions go hand in hand, this does not indicate big-business manipulation. Although many issues cloud the political scene in France, the ethical legitimation of the present form of authority stands above all others in importance...
...real income for all members of French society. But recent economic woes have caused many French-men to wonder--once again--whether their country should be entrusted to the hands of corporation leaders whose motivations are not perfectly synchronized with the collective good. Despite the cataclysmic warnings of prime minister Barre--author of the basic French textbook on economics--that a victory for the left would be the beginning of the end of economic solvency in France, a recent poll appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point showed that 52 per cent of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties...
...office had the gall to require that some staff travel come out of the student budget. The students were entangled in an increasing web of bureaucratic responsibilities. Endless letter writing, continuing deadlines, forms of all types and shapes all made it difficult for students to work on their prime responsibility--recruitment...